After some hard worked weeks we are able to give you Statuspal 2.0! This release features some big changes especially on the themes side. We have re-engineered from the ground up how we render your status page so you can write fully customized themes that look exactly how you want, and modify the existing ones too.

It's official and you're the first to know – Opsgenie is the newest member of the Atlassian family! Our commitment to you has always been that we'll provide the world's best alerting and incident management solution, coupled with outstanding customer service. That doesn't change. But we're excited to bring you even more – a fresh new logo, new plans, and much lower pricing.

As Symantec’s Principal ITSM Solutions Engineer, I was tasked 2 years ago with finding a way to quickly and effectively communicate incidents with our customers after a 4-day outage left our customers in the dark. I found Statuspage and knew it was the right tool for the job, offering a single place to send real-time updates to our customers across various channels (email, SMS, Twitter, etc.)

Voices wield power. Staying silent is not an option. We must speak up and honor those who do. October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, when communities come together to support victims and survivors of domestic abuse across the world. Earlier this month, SisterDuty, one of PagerDuty’s Employee Resource Groups (ERG), led a campaign to build toiletry kits and raise funds to benefit Casa de las Madres, which offers shelter and support to those at risk of abuse.

ITSM incident management might seem like a lot of words and letters thrown together. However, when examined in the light of managing changes to IT functionality, you quickly realize their importance. ITSM incident management quickly become realized as a way to define how teams should organize themselves and operate their IT services. And key to an effective understanding of this structure is ensuring rapid resolution of IT issues.

Language used across the high technology ecosystem is dynamic to say the least. Nowhere else can you find a mixture of technical jargon seamlessly intertwined with references from science fiction, mythology, pop-culture, literature, and more. While this makes conversations heard across technical environments colorful and engaging, it also makes communications allegorical and metaphorical— opening them to variable interpretation.

Oracle OpenWorld kicks off this week in San Francisco so I thought this would be a great time to provide an overview of how PagerDuty integrates with Oracle Cloud to help teams add real-time operations to their cloud management.